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By Consumer Reporter Tak Landrock
If you are like the millions of Americans on the go, chances are good you own an Apple i-Pod, but in Colorado, you could damage it by simply playing it. The owners manual warns it has an elevation limitation of 10,000 feet, once you reach that elevation you risk ruining your i-POD's hard drive. "The disk flies on just a few air molecules, the less air you have the closer he disk head comes to the surface, " says Computer Expert Tom Drane. The higher in elevation you go, the fewer air molecules you will encounter and you have a greater chance of your reader scratching your hard drive, "The data at that point on the disk is destroyed and if you touch it in enough places the data becomes worthless," says Drane.
NEWSCHANNEL 13 took a Video i-POD above 10,500 feet to see what would happen. At first when we turned it on, it seemed to work fine, until we tried to play a song. The i-POD began making a clicking sound and it struggled to play. We later found out that every time it made a clicking sound, it was the reader scratching our hard-drive. At one point it gave us a sad face and then we had a hard time turning the device off. The best advice is not to turn it on when you are above 10,000 feet. The i-POD instructional manual does say there is an altitude limitation. If you do chances are good Apple will not cover it under it's manufactures warranty. You still can take it on a commercial airplane, because the cabin is pressurized and it won't hurt your hard drive.
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